Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party

The Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKGP) was a national conservative political party in Hungary that was founded in 1930. The party won an overwhelming majority in the parliament in the first elections held after World War II, winning 57% of the vote to the communist Hungarian Working People's Party's 17%. The communists responded by intensifying terror and supporting a far-left coalition against the reactionary smallholders, and the party was defeated in the 1947 elections due to the Soviet occupation of Hungary, the "salami slice" tactics used by communist leader Matyas Rakosi, and widespread election fraud. The party expelled its courageous members for being "fascists" and fascist sympathizers, and the remnants of the party were absorbed into the communist party. On 18 November 1988, the party was refounded, but it never found the same level of support.